THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1933.
NATIONAL GUARD MOBILISED IN PENNSYLVANIA COAL AREA Bloodshed Marks Opening of Coal Code Strike Bus PLUNGES
SPAIN AVERTS CRISIS
Radical Leader to Form
New Government
MOTORING ISSUE
RESPONSIBILITIES
OF DRIVERS
A ensp of interest to all motor- ists in the Colony came before Mr. Wynne-Jones at the Kowloon Magistracy this morning when Mr. COUNTRY EXPECTANT Lam Ming-fan was summoned for allowing a learner driver to drive Madrid, Sept. 10. a car, of which he was in charge, The Don Alegandro Lerroux y Garcia, in an area not stipulated in lendor of the Radical party, oldest learner-driver's Hcence, Republican organisation in Spain last night accepted the invitation
It was alleged by
Inspector
of President Niceto Alcala Zamora Nicol that Mr. Lam was sitting to form a government and chart in the front sent beside a learner steering new cobrne for the young repubile.driver who was at the
wheel. The car did not belong
Acceptance of the task by Senor to Mr. Lam, Lerroux is interpreted to menn
that President Zamora has takon
Is Worship.How could Mr.
the only step that holds out a pos-Lam be in charge of the car?
sibility of saving the present
Inspector Nicol.-He was sitting
Cortes and of bringing a semblance beside the learner driver. of co-operation various cinshing parties.
the between
A little more than a month ago the Socialist party leaders declared that they would not hesitate to resort to revolution if they were Ignored in any general reorganisa- tion of the Government.
Is Worship. But that docs not make him in charge? Yes, it does.
Do you mean to tell me that if I have a car licensed in my name. fund you are a licensed driver and you sit in front while I sit at the back, and a third party, an un- licensed driver, drives the car, you
It was understood to-night that the new Premier will lacken somewhat the enforcement of the statutes against the Catholle are the man in charge?-Yes. church and especially the which deprived some 80,000 priests and nuns of the right to teach in the schools.
one
Whether Seaur Lerroux can ob-
Why would then be in a Position to apply the hand brake and take over the wheel in case) of emergency.
that's the
tain
Where is it laid down?—It is any Antifactory working. agreement with the Socialists, is not aid down, but doubted in many quarters. Howview of the Police. over, it was said that President
Referring to the summons Zamora, on the verge of a nervous breakdown because of the growing against Mr. Lum, his Worship ab- discontent in the country, be served that Mr. Lam was charged lleves that the new Premier can with allowing an unlicensed driver save the situation. Premier to drive the car. "If Mr. Lam was how Manuel Azana
who controls or not the owner of the car, did control some 112 Secialist could he have the legal right to votes in the Cortes believed to allow or refuse anybody to drive be out of the political picture for the car." his Worship added. the time being. His "strong" hand was resented by the Church and by the radicals and other political parties.
Meanwhile, all Spain is waiting to see the list of new ministera and also to hear the statement of
Inspector Nicol agreed with his Worship's view and asked leave He in- to withdraw the summuna. timated he would take out a fresh
the summons against
licensed owner of the car.
policy. Sonor Azana was favour- Bls Worship. You are right able to the Catalan group and there. 1 think you should do that. dispatches reported that leaders
In Barcelona feared that Senor
The summons against Mr. Lam
Lerroux might not be as friendly was accordingly dismissed,
toward the "state within the
tate,"
MONARCHISTS ARRESTED.
Mr. Tang Shiu-kin was fined $5 ( for driving in an area not stipulit- cd in his learner-driver's licence. Mr. Tang was the unlicensed driver.
FANLING
GOLF
Early in June when the Spanish concerned in the previons ense. populace became restive and Pre- sident Zamora feared the out- break of a class war; he dismissed Premier Azana and invited Senor & Terrouxto forma government-i He had hoped that by this appoint- 1 ment a working agreement could be arranged between the Radical
Socialist and
parties. Under
Senor Lerronx's, leadership the Radical Party had
STARTING TIMES FOR SUNDAY
The following are the starting)
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Scenes of violence seem to be the usual accompaniment to strikes in the Pennsylvania mining aress. Photo shows a picket restraining a colleague from throwing a stone al non-unión miners.
POLICE FIRE ON STRIKERS
AREA VIRTUALLY UNDER MARTIAL LAW
New York, Sept. 14. Scenes of violence even more serious than those! which marked the strike of a month ago were witnessed at Uniontown, in West Pennsylvania, to-day when the coal strike commenced officially.
RED-HOT METAL SHOWERS
Crowd's Rush From
Explosions.
AUTOMOBILE ASSN.'
FEDERATION AGREEMENT
PUBLISHED
BUS
INTO LOCH
24 PASSENGERS IN PERIL
A federation agreement between the Hongkong Automobile Associn-
THE INJURED tion and the Automobile Associa
Oban, Aug. 20: tion of Great Britain and Ireland han now been entered into. As ex3 Twenty-six people in a motor plained in the appended copy, the bus, travelling on a day excursion term "federated" implies that the from Glasgow to Oban this after- two bodies are independent, but noon, had amazing tscapes from bound by a resolution to further death when the bus crashed over each other's interests and objects the edge of the road in the Pais of Brander and carcered into Loch In all ways possible.
Awe,
The agreement reads:
The Automobile Association of Great Britain (A. A.) und the Hongkong Automobile Association
Į (΂‚Â) agree as follows:
1. The H.K.A.A. is entitled to
were detained in * Four people hospital at Oban. They are.
Miss Mattie Leithead, Avonkolm place, Glasgow;
Mre, 1s Gray and Miss Annio
adopt a modified form of tho A.A. Gray, Duke-street Glasgow, and
badge. Such modifiention and the
Mr. Lelthend, Parson-street,
wording to be used upon the badge i Glasgow. to be mutually agreed.
They are suffering from injuries
2. The A.A. to accept individual to the head and body. Among members of the H.K.A.A. tem-others injured are:
porarily visiting Great Britain and David Robertson, Springbura;- Ireland for a subscription of $1.18. Hugh Gray, Duke-street; Allay to cover 12 months' membership Leithead, .Nansen-street, and John and to provide full membership Weir, of Allinson, all of Glasgow.
-subscription- benefits--the
for The bus had slowed down at a motor-cyclists to be 10s Gd., on- narrow part of the road to allow i trance fee in both cases being car to pars when, without warning, waived.
the part of the road on which the 3. The member of the H.K.A.A. vehicle was travelling collapsed, may use his H.K.A.A. badge on and the bus raced down the slope As it reached the condition Into the water. on British roads only that the aforementioned subscrip-lock it toppled over on to its roof. tion has been paid.
Luckily it stopped just in the 4. A member of the H.K.AA.loch. Had it gone any further all will, on joining the A.A., be sup- the pccupants must have been plled with membership card, tele- drowned. Near this spot the water phone service key, handbook and is 40 fathoms deep. other regular matter.
The driver and owner of the bus Mr. Bernard Catter, of Mother- well-road, Bellshill, Glasgow.
Men, women and children ran for
b. If convenient to all concern-is their lives when pieces of red hot metal fell among them during ed, the H.K.A.A. will collect and fire which caused oxygen cylinders remit subscriptions in advance to
the London Head Office in a manner! to explore at Leytonstone.
and at intervals to be arranged. Diors were wrenched from their hinges.
Windows of houses and a cinema were shattered.
Cloud of smoke blackened
aký,
Serious bloodshed occurred in the early morning ea. during rioting at the three mines in the Fayette County! coal area.
Six were shot down and over twenty were clubbed. The police, according to reports, opened fire on the strikers after trouble with the pickets, who grew
violent.
law.
The entire area is now virtually in a state of martial
The miners are striking as a re- sult of the delay of the pro
prietors in signing the Coal Code, which provides for a thirty-six hour week and a minimum wage of three dollars a day.
Warning of the strike intention was given at a mass meeting held
inst week.
Over seventy thousand men are
become comtimes for Sunday at the Fanling affected.
to
co. Gulf Course.
paratively moderate. However, Senor Lerroux declined operate with the Socialists and President Zamora consequently was compelled to call back Premier 9.2 a.m. Azana whom he chose.
9.36
OLD COURSE..
SIX HOURS FIGHT
WITH SNAKE
REPTILE DOPED WITH SLEEPING DRAUGHT ́
When On Visit.
FIGHTING A WAY OUT. The accident occurred at two o'clock and the road at the time was busy with traffic. When the road caved in, and passengers in 6. Members of the A.A. per the cars saw the plight of the manently resident overseas are excursion party in the bus in entitled to retain their member the
loch, they left their the ship at an annual supernumerary cars and gave, what assistance
subscription of 10s. 6d. Such mem-i
could. To they
• extricate bers are entitled, when visiting them from the bus, a single decker, Great Britain and Ireland tem the passengers had to break the
to - full membership porarily,
While fighting their way out of benefits for a period not exceeding panca of glass from the interior. six months in the membership year the bus the passengers were in then current. If a visit exceede danger of being suffocated or six months, the balance of the drowned. All Buffered noverely ordinary £2. 28. aubscription for a.
A Inétory was extensively danas
tween two factories of the London
the air.
ac-
car member and £1. 1s. for a small from the shock and cuts.
the
THE PRINCESS JULIANA
DENIED.
The Hague, Sept. 10. Rumours-to-the-effect that.
Hot metal fell on a railway line, twhich fames spread,
A passenger train was held up. No one was injured. The fire occurred in a yard he
car or motor-cycle member is pay- Battery and Cable Company,
This arrangement ·will enmulat r manufacturers, Kirkdnie-able. road. The railway line runs along-apply to an overseas member of the A.A. resident in Hongkong, who is side of the yard.
not also a member of the H.K.A.A. 100ft. SMOKE SPIRAL.
An oversens member of the A.A. resident in Hongkong, who is also Twenty-four oxygen cylinders
a member of the H.K.A.A. will be ROYAL ENGAGEMENT and hundreds of accumulators, entitled, as an A.A, member to six Great which were stored in the yard, months full benefits in were destroyed.
Britain and Ireland without pay- There were three explesions, and ment of a further subscription, but just after the first a spiral of if the temporary visit exceeds six
announce the engagement of her smoke over 1000 ft, high shot into months, a further 10s. 6d. only will Queen Wilhelmina would shortly
be required, representing
daughter, Princess Juliana, have Soon afterwards the second, ex-special £1. 18. subscription rate plosion broke windows in the Rialto available to members of the II.K. been officially denied.
The person to whom she was "T Cinema, and the caretaker's house A.A.
to have been "possibly an Eng This is the true story of a youngin Kirkdale-rond School, Practical-7. In the case of a member of reported to be marrying is stated
H.K.A.A. who moves per-
lishman."-Reuter. break of violence was received, Turk, a annke 3%-yards long andly every pane of glass in the factory the
was blown out.
manently to Great Britain or Pieces of burning material fell Ireland and wishes to support the the Governor of Pennsylvaniaa chemist.
of sub-be obtainable at the usual fee on hurriedly and secretly drafted
The turk was taking a walk over an area of a quarter of a mile. A.A., the ordinary rates orders for the mobilisation of the
A train had stopped in Leyton scription would apply, the entrance payment of the ordinary A.A. sub- A.National Guard and the military alone on an Anatolian plain. Sud-
forces are being rushed to the denly a powerful yellow snake more stone (L.N.E.R.) station just be fee being waived. In such cases.scription.
(a) Unless membership of the The H.K.A.A.: is entitled to than ten feet long attacked him. fore the first explosion, and it was T. danger zone,
the All steps are being taken
A.A tho term For six hours the Turk fought delayed until an "all clear signal II.K.A.A. is retained, the H.K.A.A. publish the fact that it is federated Britain or Ireland and would be "federated" implying that the P. place the region under military the manke-and kept it from biting front the firenen. A fence running badge would not be valid in Great with
control till the trouble blows ovehim. But he could not kill it.
beside the line was burned down..
Passengers stated that the train withdrawn. On being notified that I.K.A.A. are, respectively indepen- Meanwhile, the Administration
the H.K.A.A. badge has been with-dent, but bound by a resolve to war staken by the explosion. vil a loud report and shattered a drawn, the A.A. will supply its own further each other's interests and
payment of the objects in all ways possible. In Queen's-roud, Battersca, an badge free on
This Agreement to take effect. electrical distributing box blew up ordinary A.A. subscription.
(b) Where H.K.A.A. membor-on signature by both parties and considerable part of the pavement.
Pedestrians had narrow escapes, ship in retained, the H.K.A.A. remain in force until determined. badge may be displayed in Great by either party giving to the other from flying debris.
Britain or Ireland in addition to six months previous notice in the A.A. badge, which lattor will writing.
D. S. Harley, G. T. May.
R. C. Webb, R. W. Gar-
diner.
J. W. Mayhew, R. Rodgers,
A. E. Lissaman, A. Lay.
Conditions did not Improve. In August the Azana · government 9.50 chused the Brrest of. 500 monarchists and syndicalisia and alleged there was a conspiracy. between them to averthrow the Republic. This statement brought widespread ridicule and the Azana cabinet continued to weaken until the last resignation which was in reality forced like the preceding GIRL'S ATTEMPT TO
one.
It was said to-uight that Pre- sident Zamora realises the Govern- ment cannot go on against the opposition of no many groups. The Church has brought pressure! on him to ease the laws provid ing for confiscation of property and restriction of church activities
9.18
B. S. Forster, Bailey.
II.
KILL HERSELF
UNHAPPY LOVE AFFAIR SUSPECTED
Harbin, Sept. 10.
and conservatives have contended A Russian girl. F. Belomestnova,
there is too much politics and 18, tried to commit suicide to-day
-United. Press.
MARTIAL LAW.
Soon after first news of the out-
to
Istanbul.
is greatly displeased by the de- At last he lured the snake to velopments and President Ronsea nearby village. The lccal chemist, to seeing his plight, dashed out with velt has sent Federal agents Uniontown to investigate
the i
a phial of sleeping draught and the shooting and the cause
doped the snake, outbreak.
of
PATIENCE BROKEN DOWN.
The snake turned over, dropped The President's patience regard-fast asleep and was painlessly lug the delay in signing the Coal killed.-Reiter. Code has finally broken down ns the result of the outrage, and h summoned Brig. General Johnson, the Recovery Administrator, to the White House and ordered Im
100 little constructive leadership. by opening the veins of her left mediate conclusion of the negotia
ENGINEER ARRESTED
AT MANCHULI
ÅTTEMPTING TO LEAVE COUNTRY
Harbin, Sopt. 10. According to a local newspaper, M. Kritz-Kwat, an engineer em ployed by the Zabaikal Railway, has been arrested at Manchuli while attempting to leave Man- chukuo without a visa.
boarded a M. Kritz-Kwat Zabaikal Railway locomotive engaged in shunting operations
As it was about to roturn
to
arm, but she used so much force tions, declaring that the time เมg ifor "defalte uction."--
that she severed the sinews.
come
Her parents found her lyink un-Renter. conscious in a pool of blood on the
floor of her room. Her condition {ls critical,
It is believed that an unhappy love affair was. the actuating motive.--Router:
1
LUANTUNG AREA CONTROL
RAILWAY TRAFFIC
4
NORMAL
POLICE PROBLEM.
PEKING AGITATION OVER DIRECTOR'S POST
Peking, Sept. 14. The agitation for the reinstate-i ment of Pao Yu-lin na Director of Public Safety continuos. This morning various local organisa- tions, which have been most active. In the campaign for his retention, inaugurated a committee and de-. cided to telegraph to Nanking, urging the Government to recon-
Tientsin, Sept. 15. According to natatement by Soviet territory, but he was do Mr. Chien Chung-click, a membersider its decision. talned by the Manchukuo author- of the Luantung Retrocession Com itios, because he was unable to minglon, who has just completed a Tho produce a visa,
In the mountime, Yu Chin-ho, now Director of Public tour of inspection of the Luantung Safety, who is on sick leave, hns He was released subsequently districts, railway traffic has return had lile leave extended two weeks. after signing a written declarationed to normal condition and the that he would not, in future, at- administration of various districts tomat, to leave, Manchukuo with is being carried on smoothly ex visa. Reuter
Tatili rife Central News Aponcy."
by the Mayor, who has appointed Chu Juling, the pollee chief in charge of the East City, an acting tar nerding Yu's-assumption
A similar incident occurred, also at Cüiling-rond, Rotherhithe,
IS-THE
IN SUCH
A GARD-PICYCLING-
WAS HOT SO MUCH A
SPORT AS AN
ACCOMPLISHME
BICYCLE BACK ?
-TRUTH TO TELL
BICYCLING
IGHT REVIVED AT ALL. WE WOMEN HAVÉ, BLEN
KEEPING IT UP
CO
NEW MODUS AROU